Although some of models of pace maker are removed prior to cremation, as they can sort of explode at high temperatures. Everything else is burned off, dusted off and returned.
For burial, if an autopsy is required, everything on the surface is removed to prepare the body for examination, this can include medical implants and things like bone halos and cages, though that’s usually only if the cage is suspected to be part of the cause of death, or the family has asked it be removed for burial.
Some things are removed for safety reasons, but for the most part it’s up to the family to decide what stays on the body. We burried my cousin in all her ring splints because she had them custom designed as jewelry, and we joked that “she’d want full use of her fingers in the afterlife”. But some families might ask for things to be removed post mortem because their beliefs only allow for flesh and bone to be burried.
Although some of models of pace maker are removed prior to cremation, as they can sort of explode at high temperatures. Everything else is burned off, dusted off and returned.
For burial, if an autopsy is required, everything on the surface is removed to prepare the body for examination, this can include medical implants and things like bone halos and cages, though that’s usually only if the cage is suspected to be part of the cause of death, or the family has asked it be removed for burial.
Some things are removed for safety reasons, but for the most part it’s up to the family to decide what stays on the body. We burried my cousin in all her ring splints because she had them custom designed as jewelry, and we joked that “she’d want full use of her fingers in the afterlife”. But some families might ask for things to be removed post mortem because their beliefs only allow for flesh and bone to be burried.